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Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
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When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
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At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!
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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
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Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
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The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
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Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.
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